You’ll need to pick the perfect retail journey and here’s my selection to get you thinking.
It includes Binns, Greenwoods, Gibbons and Harrisons.
But we are sure you will have your own favourites. Have a look at our Echo archive choices and then get in touch with your own.
1. A Merry Sunderland shopping Christmas
Shops galore in our 1980s Christmas retail journey. | se
2. Binns clothes department
You could hardly let Christmas go by without a trip to Binns and that's just what this customer did in 1980. | se
3. Caslaws in 1980
Suit anyone? Caslaws was a top option for the best fitting in High Street West. | se
4. Nelsons for furniture
Friends round for Christmas? No problem. Get some more chairs from Nelsons in Vine Place in 1981. | se
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